{"id":1,"date":"2016-07-04T23:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/?p=1"},"modified":"2016-07-04T23:30:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:30:50","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Hello world!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original post was timestamped on January 3rd, 2008 13:30:50 PST. But on the evening of July 4th, 2016, I begin writing a new post. This is part of a larger effort to break away from my past, and some of the things I&#8217;ve done wrong.<\/p>\n<p>What originally started as a simply life logue, will now transfer into a completely new thing. This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve said this, but I hope by doing this, it&#8217;ll be a step in the right direction. I&#8217;m not sure what the final image of this website will be, but it will be more streamlined. I will not remove some old posts, but the type of posts I&#8217;ll make will be very much streamlined to a specific set of topics that are culturally-related.<\/p>\n<p>The past random rants of rage will be taken down for the most part, except for a couple of thoughts that I think are still profound to me. So it&#8217;s not a complete departure, but a nice trimming and grooming of the blog. I used to identify myself by my job, but that&#8217;s now a distant past, and in between have held a different job. So then: What am I? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=trqDnLNRuSc\" target=\"_blank\">WHO am I<\/a>? It doesn&#8217;t matter, because it&#8217;s time I broke with my past self:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VPXIzJcfAMk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t do it kindly. I have to look at my relations with myself, my past, and other people, and can&#8217;t be kind.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;At the end of relationships, it&#8217;s the one who&#8217;s not in love who makes the tender speeches&#8221; &#8211;Marcel Proust<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This phrase is actually interesting in two different ways. I&#8217;ll have to tell myself how to part with my past, and examine a lot of things. But also, I&#8217;ve been on both ends of this issue in relationships before, and it reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/mv.davidcong.net\/?p=2328\" target=\"_blank\">a song<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original post was timestamped on January 3rd, 2008 13:30:50 PST. But on the evening of July 4th, 2016, I begin writing a new post. This is part of a larger effort to break away from my past, and some of the things I&#8217;ve done wrong. What originally started as a simply life logue, will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/?p=1\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hello world!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}